It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
~Katherine Lee Bates

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of
the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell

The seasons are shifting, The winter shades lifting,The
springtime is fillingEarth's children with mirth.The daffodil yellow, The south wind so mellow,The gentle rain
falling,Upon the green earth.The song sparrow singing, New life quickly springing,All nature is tellingA tale
of rebirth:The deep wells of being, Beyond each day's seeing,O'er flowing with new Life,Restoring the earth. ~David
E. Bumbaugh

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds
that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevensen

To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of
the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if
he is to live. ~William O. Douglas

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune
with some of natures varied forms. ~George Washington Carver

If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to
know,' and if knowing we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no
longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around
and see what other course is open to us. ~Rachel Carson

"The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never
known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the
journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.

"Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of
the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort;
it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil,
with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.

"There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived
for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards
the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed
and the seed moves."~Chandra Mohan Jain

A grain of dust contains the
whole universe. When a flower opens, the whole world appears. ~Zen Proverb

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul
by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Audra Foveo

And Spring arose on the garden fair,Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;And
each flower and herb on Earth's dark breastrose from the dreams of its wintry rest. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young
virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the
clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase. ~E.B. White

The stars shall fade away, the sun himselfGrow dim with age, and Nature
sink in years;But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,Unhurt amid the war of elements,The wreck of matter, and
the crush of worlds. ~Joseph Addison

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been
rearranged by the hand of man.

~Author Unknown

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect
refreshment.